The father was ruined financially by the calamity. to the son it opened the career which was to lead on and up to the high places of the land. In 1854 Kansas was awilderness. The tide of emigration had reached the great rivers. all along its path the struggle had been waged. with varying fortune. between the spirit of freedom and of slavery. On the borders of thenew Territory the rival forces mustered ibr desperate conflict.--should Kansas be slave or free? It seemed as if on the answer to that question hung the mighty iisue whether freedom or slavery should forever rule the Republic. Far away on the Atlantic coast Massachusetts watched the conflict and essayed her best endeavors that Kansas should be free. An emigrant aid association was organized. Eli Thayer of Worcester was its projector. Amos Lawrence of Boston its banker. Charles Robinson of Fitchburg its pioneer. A surveying party was sent. out in the spring of 1854 who selected a site for a city and named it Lawrence. InAugust.1854.the second party of emigrants left Worcester under the lead of Charles Robinson. they were tall men and strong. they were inspired by that strange. fierce instinct. that love of adventure mingled with devotion to a cause. which has impelled the Saxon race westward from the center of Northern Europe over ocean and continent. planting everywhere the pillars of a civilization higher and stronger than the world had known before. In this company of emigrants was Mr. laskell senior. The month before all his worldly wealth had vanished in smoke and ashes. With undaunted heart he turned his back upon his past. his face set towards an unknown and perilous future.
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Generalization about the Saxon race planting pillars of civilization.